Sunday, February 26, 2017

There have been many a times when I've dined in Korean restaurants more for their side dishes than the items ordered off the menu. In fact, the highlight of one of my favourite Korean restaurants was not any of the items on the menu, but the Korean soy bean side dish served before the start of every meal.

Sadly, the restaurant is not longer running, and I have yet to find another replacement which even serves this soy bean dish at all, so I turned to the internet to find a recipe to replicate this at home.

The recipe itself is quite simple- a simple mixture of soy sauce, sugar and garlic, not unlike the sauce that I make up for Jap Chae and Korean Potato side dish, but you have to take the time to boil it down to get it right. The resultant a thick, sticky mixture is much more delicious than my description makes it sound, and pairs with the firm, almost nut-like texture of the cooked soybeans very well!